Scripsit Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
> I have not seen the code, so if someone describe this in detail to me, I
> can then write a free reimplementation.
> Now, we probably don't have the toolchain to do this, and a full cross
> compiler for a handfull of instructions is not worth it.
Huh? Is the bootsector use written in a kind of machine language that
the regular as(1) for the architecture does not support? I thought
that i386 was the only platform with *that* problem.
Things like boot sectors are quite reasonable to write in assembly
language.
--
Henning Makholm "It was intended to compile from some approximation to
the M-notation, but the M-notation was never fully defined,
because representing LISP functions by LISP lists became the
dominant programming language when the interpreter later became available."